choosing a name
Get help choosing a name for your baby with this wealth of information about names, their importance, history, and origins. Visit the FamilyEducation NameLab for more ideas.
- What’s Your Baby Naming Style?
- Baby Name Quiz
- Baby Name Trends for 2012
- Quiz: Name Trivia
- Unisex Names
- Old Testament Boys’ Names
- Old Testament Girls’ Names
- State Nicknames Quiz
- Why Middle Names Are Important
- British Royal Names
- European Royal Names
- Gemstone Names
- Astrological Signs and Names
- Traditional Names
- Finding Our History: African-American Names
- Southern Names
- What’s in a Name?
- Picking a Name with Rhythm
- Classic Names
- Virtue Names and Their Meanings
- Western Names: Meet Me at the O.K. Corral
- New Testament Girls’ Names
- Western Names from the Big (and Small) Screen
- African Names
- Texan Names
- Ethnic Variations of Names
- New Testament Boys’ Names
- Choosing a Middle Name
- Names from the American Revolution
- Native-American Names
- Baby Naming Guidelines
- Top 100 Baby Names for Boys
- Names and Personalities
- Saint Names
- Top 100 Baby Names for Girls
- Popular Names and their Pros and Cons
- Creating a Neo-Name
- Names Inspired by Western Heroes (and their Foes)
- Names Inspired by American Heroes
- Midwestern Names
- Numerology and Names
- The History of Virtue Names
- Little Women Quiz: Names
- What Names Tell Us
- The Earliest Names
- Variations on a (Classical) Theme
- Pet Names as First Names
- Going for a Name "Test Drive"
- Selecting Names for Multiples
- Early American Names
- Botanical Names
- Greco-Roman Names
- What’s in a Name?
- The Great Melting Pot of Names
- Naming Fashions
- Literary Names
- Boomerang Names
- Naming Fashions for the Future
- Baby Names: Dealing with Family Demands
- The History of Created Names



